Equal Opportunities

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Welcome to this Web page of the Informatik-Forum Frauen (IFF, the forum of women in Informatics at TUM). IFF is an informal group of members of TUM Department of Informatics who are working towards equal participation of women and of other under-represented groups at the department.

The group conducts a monthly meeting, the IFF Jour fixe, where we talk about strategies and initiatives. Normally we meet every last Wednesday of the month from 12 to 1 pm in Room 01.05.058. The meeting is open to everybody who is interested in gender and diversity issues at TUM Department of Informatics. No registration is required; bring your own lunch. For the exact schedule, agendas and minutes, seehttps://www.in.tum.de/fuer-studierende/chancengleichheit/iff-jour-fixe.html

Our position on under-representation of women and other groups in computer science is cultural. We believe that under-representation is constructed through social mechanisms. Keywords are gender expectations and gender bias, stereotypes, token syndrom, glass ceiling and glass cliff. There is a lot of science to back this up! Some of it is summarized in the book "Whistling Vivaldi" by Claude M. Steele, who has written up a life of research in Sociology in a pertinent, easily accessible and entertaining book. The book can be borrowed from us at IFF. To give a taste of our position, you might also be interested in watching a one-hour gender training session at Google titled "Unconscious Bias @ Work", seehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLjFTHTgEVU.

IFF is a forum of collaboration with students, administration and faculty at TUM Department of Informatics, with TUM.Diversity and other faculties on Campus Garching, particularly with Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics.

How many students are studying at the TUM Department of Informatics? Which position has the department achieved in current rankings? Why is it deservedly called an international faculty? The poster „Facts and Figures 2016“ gives you the answer on many questions.

Personal Experience

Isabella von Sivers earned her doctorate cooperatively at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Applied Sciences Munich and wrote her dissertation with two advisors.